Research Paper Volume 16, Issue 9 pp 7928—7945

Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells promote steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head repair by improving microvascular endothelial cell function

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Figure 5. scRNA-seq analysis of the inter-cellular communication and DEGs in ECs. (A, B) GO enrichment analysis of DEGs in ECs. Heat map and violin plot showing top 5 up- or down-regulated signaling pathways in ECs. (C, D) KEGG enrichment analysis of DEGs in ECs. (E) Capacity for inter-cellular communication between ECs and other cells. (F, G) The counts and weights of ligand receptors among proliferating ECs and other cells. (H, I) The counts and weights of ligand receptors among CD74+ ECs and other cells. (J, K) The counts and weights of ligand receptors among mature ECs and other cells. (L) Ligand-receptor interactions between MSCs and ECs. (M) Inter-cellular communication in Collagen signaling pathway network.